USA Today

Do you suffer from lower back pain? It may be time to think outside the medicine cabinet

After a recent ER shift, I was thinking about how often patients turn up due to acute low back pain. ERs across the country see more than 2.6 million visits annually for low back pain. One study ...
Prevention

Study Finds These Popular Medications Were Less Effective at Treating Lower Back

New research finds common treatments for low back pain aren’t necessarily effective. Those medications include acetaminophen and muscle relaxers. Experts recommend a slew of other treatments to help ...
Medscape

Lower Back Pain: NSAID + Muscle Relaxant No Better Than NSAID + Placebo

Patients with lower back pain prescribed skeletal muscle relaxants in addition to NSAIDs report the same outcomes as placebo plus NSAIDs, new research shows. "Combining a skeletal muscle relaxant with ...
BMJ

Effectiveness of treatments for acute and subacute mechanical non-specific low back pain: a systematic review with network meta-analysis

Correspondence to Dr Silvia Bargeri, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Milan, Italy Milano, Lombardia, IT, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano 20161, Italy; ...
Healthline

What to Know About Biking and Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain from cycling could be due to bike posture, muscle imbalances, or biking too much. Conservative treatments might be enough to manage existing pain, but bike adjustments and core ...